World's oldest plant-like fossils show multicellular life appeared earlier than thought

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 14:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists have found fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old probable red algae. The spectacular finds indicate that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought.

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